The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, since May 2009 named the London Evening Standard, is a local, free daily tabloid newspaper, published Monday to Friday.
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Johnny Mathis: "Sometimes I feel I earn too much," says Mr. Mathis
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 July 1961
"YOU'D BE amazed how many people have an awful lot of money," said Johnny Mathis easily, thinking no doubt what an awful lot of mugs ...
Juliette Gréco: Gréco heads for Edinburgh...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 September 1961
Plus band and her personal electrician ...
Acker Bilk: You don't have to be poor to be good — says Acker Bilk
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 October 1961
CHRIS BARBER put 'Petite Fleur' into the hit parade three years ago and, in a sense, started the trad jazz boom. Mr. Barber still looks ...
Brenda Lee: Little Miss Lee keeps up with her school work
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 March 1962
PRODUCING CHILD prodigies is something the Americans are exceedingly good at. They have them in every field. ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: No Sneering — This Mr. Lewis Is Simply Great!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 May 1962
FOUR YEARS ago, Jerry Lee Lewis was booted out of this country with an extraordinary display of righteous nastiness. ...
Chris Barber, Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner, Mantovani: Mr. Korner and his weird front line...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 May 1962
TOGETHER, THEY MAKE THE BEST TWISTING NOISE I'VE HEARD ...
Lonnie Donegan, Glyn Johns: Lonnie Donegan: The first (and last) skiffler keeps one jump ahead...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 June 1962
LONNIE DONEGAN was the apostle of skiffle, an ephemeral art form if ever there was one. He is its sole survivor. ...
Alma Cogan Adds Another Country To Her Collection
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 June 1962
THE JAPANESE are potty about Alma Cogan. It was a little number called 'Just Couldn't Resist Her, With Her Pocket Transistor' that won her the ...
Della Reese: Putting On The Squeal — It's Like Cooking Rice
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 July 1962
IN AMERICA today, the sound to make is a coloured sound. The pop scene is riddled with young men aping Ray Charles, but they don't ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 August 1962
A CITYBILLY is somebody who sings folk songs in towns. You recognise him in America in Greenwich Village-type places by his shapely blue jeans, his ...
Bobby Vinton: The sad, sad road to success — via the nursery
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 September 1962
WHAT A flabby, masochistic lot they are in the hit parade at the moment! In the five records at the top, not one of them ...
Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962
BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...
The Everly Brothers, Phil Everly: Maybe Mr. Everly can't spell — but he sure can sing
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 October 1962
LIKE FALLING off a log, cried all the little boys up and down the country when they first heard the Everly Brothers six years ago. ...
Sam Cooke: When you're well-read and dress like wham!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 October 1962
WE HAD the wireless on throughout. Sam Cooke wore red-patterned pyjamas, a black dressing-gown and a beaten gold ring, which he wears because he doesn't ...
B. Bumble & The Stingers: Even B. Bumble has trouble with names
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 October 1962
YOU WOULD think that if you went to the trouble of calling yourself B. Bumble there would be little chance of people getting you mixed ...
Odetta: When Odetta opens her eyes...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 January 1963
IT IS TO SAY "THANK YOU" FOR ALL THAT APPLAUSE ...
The Beatles: Why The Beatles Create All That Frenzy
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 February 1963
THE BEATLES are the darlings of Merseyside. The little girls of Merseyside are so fiercely possessive about their Beatles that they forced Granada to put ...
Marion Williams: Just keep on clapping — it's Miss Williams
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 March 1963
CHRIS BARBER, they tell me, has been to see her twenty times. Humphrey Lyttelton cannot keep away. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 April 1963
IT WOULDN'T be difficult to be exceedingly jealous of Brian Epstein. In fact, I should think a lot of people are — managers particularly. ...
Ray Charles, Margie Hendrix, The Raelets: I'll Stick To Ray, Says Margie Hendrix
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 May 1963
Why? Because Mr. Charles is nice ...
Billie Davis, John Leyton, Mike Sarne: Robert Stigwood: The Young Tycoon Behind Mike Sarne & Co.
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 June 1963
FEW GROWN up people, I find, have a genuine respect for the pop singer. They see him as a creature who makes inexplicably large sums ...
Oscar Brown Jr.: A Very Cheerful Man Is Oscar Cicero Brown
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 June 1963
OSCAR BROWN JR. is an extremely cheerful person. From his riotously checked shirt to his shoes with funny little thongs at the side, he exudes ...
Jack Good: Well, he's come back — the man who really started it all
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 July 1963
IT WAS Jack Good who I first sold us rock 'n' roll. This is one of my wilder generalisations and it takes no account of ...
Gene Vincent: The original man in the black leather suit
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 July 1963
THEY USED to call Gene Vincent The Screaming End. He started the others wearing black leather, he started them hollering and diving about the stage. ...
Chubby Checker: What 3 years of Twisting have done for Chubby
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 17 August 1963
CHUBBY CHECKER is one of the nicer people you meet in this business. He looks nicer for a start. He has a brown friendly face ...
Kathy Kirby: But The Smile Does Have To Go On And On...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 September 1963
KATHY KIRBY is the girl in Stars and Garters who looks like Marilyn Monroe. She has the same curves and the same defenceless, little-girl curls; ...
Peter, Paul & Mary: Peter, Paul and Mary and the Sweet Smell of Cerebral Involvement
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 September 1963
YOU DON'T often find a beard in the hit parade — or a waistcoat for that matter. We have Acker Bilk sporting both in ours, ...
Cilla Black: After Those Beatles — The Gear Girl
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 October 1963
"I LOVE PARTIES," SAYS THE GIRL FROM LIVERPOOL. "WE ACT SOFT, DANCE FLAMENCO AND WEAR WAX ROSES IN OUR MOUTHS." ...
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan: My Nerve Has Gone Says Jet Harris
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 October 1963
POP SINGER-guitarist Jet Harris, small, sad, pale and shaking, arrived at Victoria from Brighton today. ...
Bo Diddley: So Ethel Mae stayed — and so did the guitar
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 October 1963
'THE BIGGER THE CLOWN YOU ARE, THE MORE RECOGNITION YOU GET,' SAYS BO. 'WE DO EVERYTHING EXCEPT STAND ON OUR HEADS.' ...
The Beatles: The Year of the Beatles, part one
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 17 October 1963
AS THEY MAKE THE ROYAL SHOW: A STUDY OF HOW THEY DID IT ...
The Beatles: Part II Of "The Year of the Beatles": This is where the 'O' level world becomes Rock...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 October 1963
WHAT DISTINGUISHES the Beatles and the Liverpool Movement from the rest is their self-confidence. ...
The Beatles: Part III Of 'The Year Of The Beatles': It's Like Living It Up With Four Marx Brothers
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 October 1963
EACH BEATLE differs so much from the other Beatles that it's odd they get on so well together. They like each other best. "We are ...
Georgie Fame: Soul — that's what stuns Georgie Fame
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 January 1964
GEORGIE FAME soldiers through life with a surname like that. He also has an accent like George Formby's and a singing voice like Fats Domino's. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 January 1964
IT WAS A bad idea, perhaps, to interview them in a canteen. A great number of suet rolls and custards never got digested that day ...
Richard Anthony: Report from the land of Les Yé Yé
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 January 1964
PARIS, Saturday. ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 January 1964
THERE WAS a time when Phil Spector would have been Beau Spector and the rage of Bath. His clothes alone would have made him famous. ...
The Beatles: Beatles look at New York — from behind barricades
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 February 1964
AND THEY'RE JUST POTTY WITH JOY ...
The Beatles: Beatles Panned By U.S. Critics
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 February 1964
But they wow TV audience and bring out mounted police ...
The Beatles: Beatles' Wisecracks Win the Day
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 February 1964
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The American Press had a go at the Beatles yesterday. They stayed with them from ten in the morning until seven ...
The Beatles: The Great American Love Affair with the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 February 1964
From MAUREEN CLEAVE: Washington, Wednesday ...
The Beatles: It's Bedlam for the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 February 1964
THINGS ARE really getting beyond a joke. The Beatles arrived back in New York from Washington yesterday afternoon and were marooned for three-quarters of an ...
The Beatles: I Love Them All, Says Ringo
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 February 1964
THERE WERE 8000 on the roof. A thousand running through the building. And police galore. ...
Gerry & the Pacemakers: How Does He Sing Through That Grin?
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 February 1964
GERRY IS the one with the grin. He makes jokes about wiring it into position to a top back tooth on either side of his ...
Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, Duke Reid, Sir Coxone: It's Ska — but we call it Blue Beat!
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 March 1964
I SUPPOSE we'd all reckoned without Jamaica. Since the failure of that embarrassing calypso which we were told would sweep the nation — the nation ...
Eden Kane: Fancy Ever Thinking Eden Kane Wasn't a Home-Loving Type!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 March 1964
EDEN KANE was the classic pop singer. He was selected, preposterously renamed, instructed in what to drink at dinner, garbed from head to toe in ...
The Rolling Stones: This Horrible Lot – Not Quite What They Seem
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 March 1964
"BUT WOULD YOU LIKE your daughter to marry one?" is what you ask yourself about the Rolling Stones. They've done terrible things to the musical ...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe: How Sister Rosetta gets them rolling
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 9 May 1964
THEY CALL her the Holy Roller. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is indeed a holy lady but she does roll in a way that would do credit ...
The Rolling Stones: But would you let your daughter marry one?
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 May 1964
Take A Middle-Class Value, Stand It On Its Head: You've Got A "Stone ...
Bob Dylan: If Bob can't sing it, it must be a poem or a novel or something...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 May 1964
SOME SAY that Bob Dylan is a genius; others say he is a very moderate folk singer but not bad at the guitar. I say ...
The Yardbirds: Well, they've got a bearded Russian manager!
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 May 1964
THERE ARE five Yardbirds and they have two interesting properties. The first is a Russian manager with a beard, dark glasses and a Lancia in ...
Peter and Gordon: Peter & Gordon: Now What About A Look At Gordon (Not Peter)
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 May 1964
WE KNOW all about Peter of Peter and Gordon. We know he is the brother of Jane Asher who is the friend of the gifted ...
Carl Perkins: Here's the man to set you patting your blue suedes
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 June 1964
CARL PERKINS has a place of his own at the very beginning of the rock 'n' roll story. On January 1, 1956, he recorded a ...
The Beatles, Ringo Starr: Sigh Of Relief — Ringo's Out
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 June 1964
RINGO STARR came out of hospital at 10 o'clock this morning and every Beatle supporter heaved a sigh of relief. ...
Dusty Springfield: What's Wrong With Me — by Miss Springfield
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 June 1964
TOWARDS THE end of last year, Britain went into mass production of the Girl Singer. The most durable of these is Dusty Springfield. She is ...
Jimmy Witherspoon: All About Spoon — And How He Got Another Chance
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 June 1964
JIMMY WITHERSPOON is a gigantic man of 41 with great bristling eyebrows and moustaches and a large winning smile. Intimates and admirers call him Spoon. ...
Lulu, Millie: In this business where you're old at 20, Millie and Lulu are the Younger Fry
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 July 1964
WHILE THEIR elder sisters, Kathy Kirby, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black sing moving songs about love and desertion, Millie and Lulu are to be found ...
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez and Charlie Foxx: Gospel Voice and Lunatic Gestures...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 July 1964
CHARLES AND Inez Foxx are a handsome pair. To the initiated and fortunate few in this country who have heard them, they are known as ...
Long John Baldry: LJB sticks his neck out...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964
IF YOU really want to bore Long John Baldry, ask him if it's cold up there. His height is 6ft. 7½in., which makes him — ...
Marianne Faithfull: Put it down to my age, says Miss Faithfull
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 July 1964
MARIANNE FAITHFULL is a raving beauty of 17 who lives with her mother, the Baroness Erisso, in a small terraced house in Reading. She goes ...
Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones: Mr. Oldham Has Second Thoughts About The Stones...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 August 1964
"I'D BE A FOOL TO GIVE UP ALL THAT LOOT" ...
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 August 1964
ARE THE Record Companies losing their grip? There are eight British records in the Top Ten. Of these eight, only three have been recorded by ...
The Beach Boys: Mr. Wilson hated rock — but he loved the Beach Boys
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 22 August 1964
THE NOISE the Beach Boys make is a wail with a touch of adenoid; the songs, they sing are about surfing and cars. What with ...
Burt Bacharach: The man who put neurosis into top pops
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 29 August 1964
THE INTRODUCTION of the Neurotic Ballad to British popular music is the responsibility of an American called Burt Bacharach. We first developed a taste for ...
Jack Nitzsche, The Rip Chords: Jack Nitzsche: Dress For 'Nitchie'
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 September 1964
— Orange Jeans, Black Jersey, Green Jerkin ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 October 1964
THE BEATLES have done terrible things to the American record industry. Nobody knows what to record any longer. Should they try to reproduce what is ...
Roy Orbison: The Unlikely Mr. Orbison flies into London
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 October 1964
ROY ORBISON, the only American we tolerate at the top of our native hit parade, flew into London this morning wearing dark glasses and black ...
Delaney & Bonnie, Jackie DeShannon: Jackie DeShannon: The girl who began when she was two
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 24 October 1964
JACKIE DeSHANNON might be considered an alarming girl. She is one of those prodigies in whom the Americans seem to specialise. She appeared on the ...
The Isley Brothers: The boys who put OOOOHHHH! into Pop
Profile by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 24 October 1964
THE ISLEY Brothers — Rudolph, Ronnie and O'Kelly Jr., but chiefly Rudolph — put the high-pitched, train noise OOOOHHHH into British pop music. The importance ...
Brenda Lee: The man who'd barely heard of Brenda Lee (she married him)
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 November 1964
BRENDA LEE turned professional when she was six; she had actually been singing for two years before that. She appeared on the Steve Allen show ...
Ron & Mel: How Ron And Mel (From Streatham) Took The Twist To Bagdad
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
THAT THE Middle East saw the light is entirely thanks to Ron and Mel Lines. These two young men, without encouragement, financial backing, Brian Epstein ...
The Beatles: Beatles For Sale (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 28 November 1964
BEAUTIFUL BEATLES ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Claudette: Alone among the Miracles
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 December 1964
CLAUDETTE MUST be one of the few women who got the job when she stood in for her brother. She has been standing in now ...
Twinkle: A sad song about Terry
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 December 1964
HER PARENTS hoped that Twinkle would be a deb; Twinkle was rather keen to become a pop singer. And so she did. She is 17, ...
The Righteous Brothers: The strange thing about the Righteous Brothers is that they're white...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 16 January 1965
THE RIGHTEOUS Brothers are not brothers at all; nor indeed are they more than ordinarily righteous. Their names are Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley, and ...
Donovan: Whether or not Donovan is the Genuine Thing is not what really matters...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 February 1965
FOR THE past few weeks, Donovan has had his own little corner of Ready, Steady, Go! each Friday. He is to be seen with chin ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 February 1965
FROM NOW ON, many of your favourite American rhythm and blues records will appear under a label called Chess. This is owned by two brothers ...
Val Doonican: Relaxation: it's a way of life for the housewife's choice...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 March 1965
VAL DOONICAN Is a friendly, easy-going man of 36 who makes his living — it would be but slight exaggeration to say — by looking ...
Marianne Faithfull: The Trouble With Marianne: By The Man She'll Marry
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 March 1965
MARIANNE FAITHFULL announced her engagement to Mr. John Dunbar in The Times. Pop singers do not often use The Times to let their friends know ...
The Beach Boys, The Lettermen: Nobody bugs the Gutsy Greek — the sten guns see to that
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 May 1965
NICK VENET went into the American record industry when he was 18 years old for this reason: "I wanted," he said, "to do something devastating; ...
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 May 1965
THERE'S ONE thing the Everly Brothers are really good at and that's survival. Quite soon they will celebrate their silver anniversary of 25 years in ...
Vashti Bunyan, Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965
VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...
Bang Went The Silence — And Ready Steady Hogg Emerged
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
MICHAEL LINDSAY-Hogg is a large young man of 25 with calm brown eyes set in a calm round face. One of ITV's youngest directors, he ...
The Beatles: George, M.B.E., Always Knew...
Comment by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1965
SO THE Beatles have the MBE; they may be pleased but I doubt whether they're surprised. If they'd been made dukes I doubt whether they ...
Solomon Burke: Cost of Solomon's Cadillac: a couple of songs and two good funerals...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 19 June 1965
THE LARGE, smiling, splendid man in the picture is called Mr. Solomon Burke. He is 25. His wife is called Dolores Othello and they have ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 July 1965
GROWN-UPS, it seems, squabble just as boringly over labels, like jazz and blues, as do the younger fry over rock 'n' roll and the genuine ...
Vicki from Inkpen, Berks, may not look like a girl with power — but she's got it, lots of it
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 31 July 1965
SHE'S BACK! THE GIRL WHO REALLY KNOWS THE POP PEOPLE ...
The Kinks: When Kink sees psychiatrist guess who asks the questions!
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, August 1965
THE KINKS have been successful for a year now. They appeared last August at a time when everybody said there would be no more groups ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 7 August 1965
As my friend in Hollywood wrote in advance of their coming: "This is no Nina and Frederik deal, I assure you." ...
Jonathan King: The challenge behind Jonathan's trip to the moon
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 August 1965
POP SINGING, I had always thought, demanded of the pop singer his all. Did we appreciate to the full, I had often asked myself, the ...
The Beatles: Help! (Parlophone PMC 1155)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 14 August 1965
SMALL WONDER the Americans pressed a million copies of this LP before they released it. Seven of the 11 new songs are what I can ...
Andrew Loog Oldham: Immediate People Never Wear Three-Button Suits
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 August 1965
ANDREW OLDHAM, aged 21, and Tony Calder, 24, yesterday formed a record company and with it released three pop singles that will compete with pop ...
Cilla Black: Two years later Cilla Black is much the same really...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 September 1965
She is more famous, of course: there were only ten people in the coffee bar but they all came to pay their respects... ...
Joan Baez: What money, love, and the wear and tear of life have done to Joan Baez, folk singer
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 October 1965
MAUREEN CLEAVE interviewing the darling of smart young Americans ...
Marc Bolan: Knit Yourself A Pop Singer — Marc and Mike Will Tell You How
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 23 October 1965
HUMILITY AMONG POP SINGERS used to be all the rage. "Mr. Presley," the interviewer would ask, "is it to luck or to talent that you ...
The Beatles: It's a keen pad... Cyril Lord could make a fortune in this place, say the Beatles
Report by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 26 October 1965
THE BEATLES went to Buckingham Palace this morning to see the Queen. The occasion was the presentation of their MBEs. But the confrontation was inevitable, ...
Zoot Money: The trouble with Zoot Money is that he can't get his hands on any
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 November 1965
ZOOT MONEY is the son of Oscar Money. Mr. Oscar Money is half Italian and works as a wine waiter in Bournemouth. "He speaks very ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 20 November 1965
KIT LAMBERT and his partner Chris Stamp manage the Who and the Merseybeats. Chris Stamp is Terence Stamp's brother, more handsome but less photogenic. ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 27 November 1965
ON SEA? WELL, THAT'S HOW IT SEEMS TO LEAPY LEE WHO RECKONS HE CAN TELL IT WITH HIS EYES CLOSED ...
Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw: Eve Taylor: When Eve Fought For Adam
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 December 1965
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The Beatles: Rubber Soul (Parlophone PMC 1267)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 December 1965
THIS — LET it be faced — is a disappointment. They have tried to do too much. There are 14 new songs — two by ...
An ordinary girl, Cathy, and that's why she succeeds
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 December 1965
CATHY McGOWAN'S career is based, when you come do think of it, on her very ordinariness. Most people get their jobs because of an ability ...
Georgie Fame, Chris Farlowe: He is lovable... that's the funny thing about Rik Gunnell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 January 1966
THERE ARE two Gunnell brothers, Rik and Johnny. If asked their dearest, secret wish, they might say they wished there were three Gunnell brothers — ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger — Bad Joke Into Social Lion
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE talks to the voice of the Stones ...
Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966
THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...
The Beatles, John Lennon: How Does a Beatle Live? John Lennon
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 March 1966
ON A HILL IN SURREY... A YOUNG MAN, FAMOUS, LOADED AND WAITING FOR SOMETHING ...
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 March 1966
RINGO LIVES in Weybridge at the bottom of the hill of which John lives on top. His house, too, is large and Tudor-ish. It has ...
The Beatles, George Harrison: How A Beatle Lives Part 3: George Harrison — Avocado With Everything…
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 18 March 1966
GEORGE HARRISON is 23, the youngest Beatle and the least well-known. He isn't one of the two who sing and he isn't Ringo; indeed some ...
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 25 March 1966
THE SCENE SHIFTS FROM WEYBRIDGE TO LONDON ...
The Beatles, Cilla Black: Brian Epstein: The Man Behind The Beatles And How He Lives
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 1 April 1966
Many theories developed about Brian Epstein: he was crooked, he was straight; he was a tough businessman, he was a lousy businessman; it was all ...
The Yardbirds: Simon Napier-Bell always tells the truth... especially about Simon Napier-Bell
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 13 May 1966
MAUREEN CLEAVE'S FRIDAY INTERVIEW ...
The Beatles, The Hollies: The Beatles: 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain' (Parlophone)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 June 1966
IT'S HARD to know what to say about either of these songs. One thing is certain: Ella Fitzgerald and all the gang of real singers ...
The Beatles: Revolver (Parlophone PMC 7009)
Review by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 30 July 1966
THIS COMES out next Friday. The cover shows the Beatles with huge heads of Beardsley hair and little photographs of themselves propped up on the ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: The enigmatic Yoko
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 26 October 1968
In her first interview: talking about love, loneliness and Lennon ...
Janis Joplin: Janis Superhypermost!
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 5 April 1969
JANIS JOPLIN is instantly, aggressively friendly. I'm a complete stranger and right away she's asking me to massage her neck and kissing me "hello" with ...
B.B. King: Blues Boy and Lucille
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 26 April 1969
B.B. King didn't know anything about being black until he was 13: then the differences became obvious ...
Live Review by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 1 July 1969
RAY CONNOLLY at the Pop Proms ...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 12 July 1969
"THE BEATLES are personally not rich to the extent that most people think they are. They're not that well off. Maybe it's a comedown, but ...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 13 December 1969
KEITH RICHARD, the Rolling Stone with hair that looks like it got half caught in a helicopter propeller and has never fully grown out again, ...
Jeff Dexter: Jeff thinks it's funny: "Even with a beard they call me Madam"
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 20 December 1969
A HALF-DEAD fly cruised slowly and miserably around Jeff Dexter's ash blond shoulder-length hair and made its unhappy way towards me. Dexter must have read ...
Joni Mitchell: A little bit of Ecology Rock from Joni...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 3 January 1970
"THE MONEY you get paid as a singer is all out of proportion. In America they pay you to sing — but they don't pay ...
Laura Nyro: New York Tendaberry (CBS)
Review by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 17 January 1970
Laura and her captain ...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 21 April 1970
The truth about the Beatles: Paul McCartney talks to Ray Connolly ...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 22 April 1970
THROUGHOUT LUNCH the McCartneys sat close together. As Paul talked Linda squeezed his hand and whenever he talked about their marriage and family, she put ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass (Apple)
Review by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 21 November 1970
Together: George and Eric and Klaus and Ringo and Allen and Bonnie and Billy and Co. ...
The Beatles, John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John Lennon: The working class hero at 30
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 10 December 1970
THE RAY CONNOLLY INTERVIEW: THIS WEEK, JOHN LENNON ON THE EVE OF HIS NEW LP ...
James Brown: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 11 March 1971
A dialogue in hysteria ...
Kate Bush: Bringing It Back Home
Interview by James Johnson, The Evening Standard, 26 September 1978
THE feverish quality of the pop world barely intrudes into the calm atmosphere of the large comfortable family house on the edge of the Kent ...
Kate Bush: The Things Kate Doesn't Tell Mother
Interview by James Johnson, The Evening Standard, 5 September 1980
KATE BUSH would be less than human if she did not sometimes marvel at the attention she has received over the last three years. ...
Eastie Boys: Real Life in London's East End
Report by Paul Wellings, The Evening Standard, 24 July 1987
IT IS A HOT day in London’s East End. I’m sitting in my home of Stepney, sipping an ice-cool lager outside the infamous Blind ...
The Badder the Better: Soulboy Life in London
Report by Paul Wellings, The Evening Standard, 31 March 1988
IN LONDON TOWN, they’re funking till they’re raw. From badland clubland they’ve voted with their feet for black soul music. Pirate stations like ...
Cath Carroll: Ronnie Scott's, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 2 August 1991
Idol threats and promises ...
Mica Paris: Jazz Cafe, Camden, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 March 1993
A passion for south London ...
Dr. Feelgood: Lee Brilleaux: What the Doctor lauded
Obituary by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 14 April 1994
Lee Brilleaux, frontman of the legendary Dr Feelgood, died last week. MAX BELL remembers the pub rocker's pub rocker. ...
Shane MacGowan: Up For It Again and Still Never Normal
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 4 June 1994
SHANE MacGowan assumes the position at the bar of his favourite north London watering hole, Filthy MacNasty's in Amwell Street, shouting his personal drinks order ...
Take That: Bare cheek, but check out the talent — Take That: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 16 September 1994
Deafened by screams, but impressed by the cabaret, MAX BELL reviews Take That at Wembley Arena ...
Eternal: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 8 December 1994
Babes at work on the swingbeat ...
Morrissey: Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 28 February 1995
Heaven knows he's a star now ...
Bush: America? They're mad for it
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 20 January 1997
Four Londoners have conquered the American rock market: their new album is at number one and they outsell the Britpop crew combined. Have you heard ...
Blur: "We're an art school band and always will be"
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 7 February 1997
Damon Albarn has re-invented Blur: they don't drink (much), they don't like New Labour and they certainly don't play Britpop. MAX BELL meets the capital's ...
Terry Callier, Beth Orton: Beth Orton: The next Dusty springs from the trailer park to centre stage
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 19 March 1997
Beth Orton is an unlikely creature: a beautiful, long-limbed folk singer who's got the grapevine buzzing. Her pop comes from the American trailer park and... ...
The Monkees: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 20 March 1997
The comeback that's making monkeys out of us ...
Jewel: A hot front from the frozen north
Profile and Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 13 May 1997
She's just 17, hails from Arctic America and has been taken up by the likes of Dylan and Sean Penn. What more could a budding ...
Propellerheads: One giant leap for Big Beat
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 3 February 1998
Everyone wants a piece of their music: Steven Spielberg, Shirley Bassey, Coca-Cola... but the Propellerheads have their feet firmly on the ground. MAX BELL meets ...
Gary Barlow: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 24 March 1998
Stepping on the Gaz for the middle of the road ...
Spice Girls: Wembley Arena, London ★★
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 15 April 1998
Yes, yes, oh yes, the Five are Fab ...
Ian McCulloch, Spice Girls: The Spice Girls and Ian McCulloch: They're singing for England...
Report and Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 22 April 1998
It's the song of the summer and you'll hear it for the first time at the match tonight. MAX BELL speaks exclusively to the Spice ...
Spiritualized: Glossed in space
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 June 1998
Spiritualized don't want hit singles. So have they broken into the big league by mistake? MAX BELL reports on a band to rival the Verve. ...
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 17 July 1998
Windy force is hard to pin down ...
Kylie Minogue: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 30 July 1998
K is for kitsch ...
Grateful Dead: Ken Kesey: The prank outsider
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 August 1998
In the Sixties the Beatles stitched him up. But chemically challenged cult novelist Ken Kesey still loves London in the summer. MAX BELL meets the ...
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 2 December 1998
The exceptionally named Gay Dad will headline the New Year's NME Brats night. And they're set for even bigger things, says MAX BELL ...
Black Star Liner: Leeds' star of Asia
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 22 January 1999
Choque Hosein of Black Star Liner has a sense of humour almost as rich as his music. MAX BELL meets the Yorkshire Indian in the ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 8 February 1999
Sunsplashed homage to Bob ...
Gillian Welch: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 9 February 1999
Lonesome and down in the country ...
Andy Williams: Lounging with Mr Williams
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 17 March 1999
The king of easy listening is back in town and still as cool as ever. MAX BELL meets his idol ...
Lynden David Hall: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 19 March 1999
Sexy Lynden plays it cool and serious ...
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 31 March 1999
The new Beck, huh? MAX BELL meets Badly Drawn Boy, whose Idiosyncratic, low-fi sound provokes the strangest comparisons... ...
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 16 April 1999
Digging Roots ...
All Saints: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 4 May 1999
Shaznay and company pass the live-show test ...
Beck takes his seven-year itch to law
Report by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 21 May 1999
A music magazine called him The Most Important Man in the World, but now the future of ultra-cool rocker Beck depends upon lawyers. MAX BELL ...
Shania Twain: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 9 July 1999
Sounds of the country from Nodding Hell ...
Glen Campbell: "I could have gone the same way as Elvis"
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 17 September 1999
Cleaned-up and born again, Glen Campbell is back in town. MAX BELL talks to him about the drugs and women... and the music that made ...
Blur, Madonna, William Orbit, Beth Orton: William Orbit: In Orbit with Madonna
Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 November 1999
Wizard producer William Orbit is the cockney behind the sound of Madonna. He's also created an unlikely techno album of his own, reports MAX BELL ...
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 20 December 1999
Bursting into Flames ...
Retrospective by Lloyd Bradley, The Evening Standard, 15 September 2000
This is the story of reggae in West London — from the sound systems of the Fifties to the Carnival of today. Lloyd Bradley celebrates ...
Bob Dylan: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 5 October 2000
AS HE approaches his 60th year there are many people prepared to vouch for the fact that Bob Dylan hasn't been in such great shape ...
Emmylou Harris: Red hot and no sign of a cowboy
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 11 October 2000
Forget all those whiney, lovesick singers. Emmylou Harris is the performer who makes country music respectable. Tim Cooper talks to her in New York as ...
Cliff Richard: Cliff reveals the secret of youth... his face is injected with botulism
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 13 October 2000
CLIFF RICHARD, the apparently ageless Peter Pan of Pop, has finally revealed the secret of his eternal youth — he has had toxins injected into ...
Lenny Kravitz: 'Don't Call Me A Sex Symbol'
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2000
LENNY KRAVITZ is late. His "people" (a personal chef, band manager, tour manager, personal manager, publicists, fixers, press officers and assorted attractive but apparently purposeless ...
Finley Quaye: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 7 December 2000
Not as other men ...
Profile by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 4 January 2001
EVER SINCE Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian struck up a playground friendship in their Clapham primary school they seemed destined to work together. ...
Heshima: Do the Harlesden Shuffle
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, The Evening Standard, 16 February 2001
NW10 is a patch of London that suffers a reputation for drugs and violence — a "murder hotspot" according to the Met. But Harlesden has ...
Jaheim: Soul Boy Not Short On Confidence
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 14 March 2001
Jaheim Hoagland's smooth, soulful vocals have been likened to those of music legends Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross – but he's not too happy about ...
Destiny's Child: The Joys Of Child-ish Behaviour
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 23 April 2001
THE SASSIEST girl group in the world are slumped on a sofa lamenting the "awfulness" of how they look. Destiny's Child – Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly ...
Spooks: The Spooks: "We're gonna hijack the planet"
Interview by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 26 April 2001
They won't say where they come from but hip-hop collective the Spooks know where they're going. ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob is still God
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, The Evening Standard, 2 May 2001
Twenty years after his death, Bob Marley is deified by millions. Charles Shaar Murray reveals the complex man behind the legend. ...
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 1 June 2001
Fifteen-year-old singer Lisa Roxanne. South London’s answer to Beyonce Knowles, wants to abolish rain, racism and boring people ...
Anastacia: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 11 June 2001
Short, sharp shock of soul ...
The Strokes, The White Stripes: Big riffs from across the pond
Profile by Max Bell, Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 5 July 2001
US garage rock is back, and Detroit and New York are where it's at. Stevie Chick and Max Bell look at the new breed chasing ...
Carina Round: Elbow Room, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 6 August 2001
Sweetness rules in the pool hall ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 8 August 2001
The rising London rapper has tuned in to the sounds of Brixton to give hip hop an international accent, says Stevie Chick ...
Sean Paul: Queens of calypso and men of steel
Report and Interview by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 22 August 2001
MAURICE HAMILTON sighs heavily as he describes the series of events which has seen virtually all the proposed live performances at this year's Notting Hill ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, September 2001
THE INSTRUCTIONS are clear but minimal. Get to Ibiza Town and wait for an email with a mobile phone number. Try the number just after ...
Natalie Imbruglia: A loser in love
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, 10 October 2001
Natalie Imbruglia has made her first record in four years although her famous, short-lived boyfriends have kept her in the headlines. She talks to Ian ...
Garbage: White Trash: Shirley Manson
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 8 November 2001
Shirley Manson, pop's most famous redhead, has suddenly gone blonde. A new look to match her new outlook. ...
Live Review by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 15 November 2001
New songs, new confidence ...
Gorillaz: Damon and the fine art of faking it
Report by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 15 January 2002
At this year's Brit Awards, Damon Albarn's creation, Gorillaz, look set to upstage the fake bands they so like to mock. Stevie Chick reports. ...
Taraf de Haïdouks: Johnny and the outlaws take Hackney by storm
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 29 January 2002
IT IS not every day you find a Hollywood superstar slumming it in the East End. But last night Johnny Depp came to deepest Hackney ...
Groove Armada: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 18 March 2002
Getting back in the groove ...
TLC: T-Boz: "The doctors told me I wouldn't live to see 40"
Interview by Precious Williams, The Evening Standard, 27 November 2002
She's a member of the famous girl band TLC. Here, T-Boz talks about her daily battle with sickle cell anaemia ...
Profile and Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, October 2003
"WHEN WE WERE younger, we were always entertaining people," says Su-Elise Nash, at 22 the youngest member of the UK's most urban girl group, Mis-Teeq. ...
Christina Aguilera: Christina stripped bare
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 30 October 2003
The video for 'Dirrty' transformed Christina Aguilera overnight from girl next door to sex siren. As she plays Wembley, Tim Cooper talks to her about ...
David Bowie: "I've beaten vices thanks to my daughter"
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 November 2003
He is free from fags, booze and drugs. But clean-living David Bowie admits that staying that way will still be hard work in 30 years' ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, 18 March 2004
She nearly killed herself with drugs, but now pop's wild child has cleaned up her act. As she prepares to play Wembley, Pink tells Ian ...
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, 8 April 2004
At their mid-'80s peak Duran Duran had it all — the glamour, the girls, the money. Now, 20 years on they're back. And all they ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, June 2004
At 71, James Brown shows no signs of slowing down musically — or in his capacity for getting into trouble. Ian Watson meets the Godfather ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, July 2004
ANGIE STONE breezes into the bar at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester apologising for the burger in her hand and explaining that she's just flown ...
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 9 July 2004
After a decade of crises that would have finished off most bands, Wilco are back ...
Gwyneth Herbert: From bistro waitress to jazz festival star
Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 13 July 2004
Pub gigs pay off as "Britain's Norah Jones" is chosen to open concert ...
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 24 August 2004
Soul diva Gabrielle sold millions of records, before a serious throat condition — triggered by her obsessive compulsive disorder — threatened to wreck her career ...
Ian Brown, The Stone Roses: Ian Brown: Coming up Roses
Interview by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 14 October 2004
Now established as a successful solo artist, lan Brown finally feels comfortable revisiting the seminal songs of the Stone Roses. Tim Cooper meets an indie ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, 12 November 2004
"I'M LOOKING FORWARD to my 40s," declares Anastacia, a tiny woman with big hair, bold glasses and a big, big voice. "I want lines in ...
Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Interscope)
Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 29 April 2005
This is only the fourth album since 1989 from Trent Reznor, responsible for everything here save the drums, but the man's influence is pervasive. ...
Jimmy Webb: The man who made the whole world sing
Interview by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 6 May 2005
Jimmy Webb, composer of classics such as 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Up, Up and Away', is about to step up to the mike for two rare ...
Scritti Politti: Return of Scritti Politti
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Evening Standard, 21 July 2006
For almost a decade, Green Gartside abandoned his band and the pop scene. Now he's back with a new album — and a surprise Mercury ...
My Morning Jacket: Astoria, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Evening Standard, 25 September 2006
JAMMING IS A justly maligned practice in rock, too often the last refuge of self-indulgent musos running low on inspiration. ...
The Clash: Clash member will be the last white man in Hammersmith Palais
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The Evening Standard, 30 March 2007
A look back at the history of a London landmark, as a bandmate of Joe Strummer prepares for the final concert there before the bulldozers ...
Massive Attack: Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 June 2008
THE FILM score to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic Blade Runner was always more than a fanfare for Harrison Ford's on-screen heroics. Eerie and ambient, Vangelis's ...
The Fratellis: Somerset House, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 11 July 2008
WITH ITS stately, enclosed surroundings, a sound even purists might describe as "not that bad, really" and a night sky packed with aircraft, it's hardly ...
Amy Winehouse, My Bloody Valentine: Bestival, Isle of Wight ***
Report by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 September 2008
Still bloody loud and clear at Bestival ...
Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 15 May 2009
He's back and better than ever ...
God Help the Girl: God Help the Girl (Rough Trade)
Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 19 June 2009
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN are still with us but leader Stuart Murdoch is a restless soul, hence God Help the Girl, a somewhat skimpy tale based ...
Kate Nash: Village Underground, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 23 April 2010
Growing up and away from Lily ...
Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: "Ride what you've got until the wheels fall off"
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, The Evening Standard, 11 June 2014
Some people already know that Jazzie B is a London Legend but tonight at the first London Music Awards he takes the title officially. The ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 3 July 2014
IT'S BEEN five years since La Roux's Elly Jackson announced she was going in for the kill. The intervening period has seen the south Londoner ...
Mark Lanegan: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 5 August 2015
GRUNGE-ROCK survivor Mark Lanegan is not renowned for his rose-tinted view of the world. "You've been torturing me," rumbled the 50-year-old during set opener 'The ...
William Onyeabor, Sinkane: Ahmed Gallab: "I want to make people feel the joy of being alive"
Interview by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 14 August 2015
Ahmed Gallab is all set to blow minds at David Byrne's Meltdown festival, and he hopes his hip sound will inspire youngsters back in his ...
Bullet for my Valentine: Venom (RCA)
Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 14 August 2015
Back with a thrash and a hollered howl ...
HONNE: Electric Brixton, London
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 4 March 2016
Stardom beckons for diffident duo with an explosive sound ...
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 12 October 2016
WHEN JUSTIN BIEBER most recently played the O2 in 2013, he arrived two hours late, broke the hearts of his young audience and was shoddiness ...
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 28 October 2016
OVER THE COURSE of three albums, Los Angeles-based Warpaint have risen from strugglers (albeit well connected strugglers — bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg's sister is actress ...
Wretch 32: O2 Forum, Kentish Town, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 10 November 2016
Though there were strong moments, the break-out grime star sometimes blurred the line between touching and naff, says Rick Pearson. ...
Wilco: O2 Academy Brixton, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 21 November 2016
CAPABLE OF BEING as sombre as a Sunday night in with Bob Dylan or as wild as a Friday night out with the Pogues, Wilco ...
Rag'n'Bone Man: Electric, Brixton
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 25 November 2016
FAR FROM slender, festooned with tattoos which suggest he's spent the past few years at her majesty's pleasure, the wrong side of 30 and blessed ...
Why I made a 15,000-mile trip to a jazz festival when I don't even like jazz
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 10 March 2017
THIS WEEK I made a round trip of 15,000 miles to go to a jazz festival on the other side of the world. ...
Young Fathers: Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 12 June 2017
GIVEN THAT THIS year's Meltdown is curated by MIA, an artist who's made a career out of being as contrarian as is humanly possible, Friday night's ...
Feist: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 28 July 2017
JARVIS COCKER joined Feist on stage at the Empire, ambling on during 'Century' to ask: "How long is a century? Almost as long as a ...
Chase and Status: Chase & Status: Tribe
Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 August 2017
Bereft of originality ...
Interpol: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 4 September 2017
There's a charisma vacuum where the flamboyant Carlos "D" Dengler used to be, says Rick Pearson, but this show was a reminder of the importance ...
Phoenix: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 2 October 2017
ALLY PALLY IS a ruthless venue that chews up and spits out all but the best of live bands. To succeed in this cavernous space, ...
Madonna: Another view: My night with Madonna (and Sean Hughes)
Memoir by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 20 October 2017
BACK IN THE LATE 1990s I used to run into Sean Hughes all the time at parties. He was a Perrier Award-winning stand-up comedian and ...
The War on Drugs: War On Drugs: Alexander Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 15 November 2017
IN AN ERA of instant gratification, the slow-burning pleasures of the War On Drugs provide the perfect antidote. ...
U2: Another view: The thing with Bono and Apple...
Comment by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 24 November 2017
I HEAR THAT U2 have a new album coming out. I know this not because I have received a press release (though I have) but ...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Who Built the Moon? (Sour Mash)
Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 24 November 2017
FOR ALL ITS commercial success Noel Gallagher's post-Oasis output has hardly been a study in boundary-pushing experimentation. ...
David Bowie: Meet Chas, he's been mad about Bowie since he was a lad
Report by Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 1 December 2017
From diehard to recent fans, Tim Cooper spends the night immersed in Bowie fanatics. ...
Queen & Adam Lambert: O2, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 13 December 2017
HOW DO YOU replace the greatest rock singer of all time? That was the issue facing Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor when Freddie Mercury ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 15 January 2018
FORGET WHAT you think you know about Paramore. No longer are the Tennessee band all about angst, eyeliner and power chords. Paramore in 2018 are ...
Bastille: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 17 April 2018
"AS YOU CAN see," said Bastille's Dan Smith, looking round at the orchestra and choir, "we're doing things a little differently tonight." That's something of ...
Roy Orbison: The Hologram Tour – Eventim Apollo, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 19 April 2018
Let's hear it for the hologram ...
Courtney Marie Andrews: Islington Assembly Rooms, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 25 April 2018
PICKING UP THE gong for International Artist of the Year at the recent UK Americana Awards, Arizona's Courtney Marie Andrews came to Islington with expectations ...
Beyoncé, Jay-Z: Beyoncé and Jay-Z: London Stadium
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 June 2018
STILL CRAZY in love? That's the message that Jay-Z and Beyoncé are keen to project during their On The Run II tour, which came to ...
Flight of the Conchords: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Bruce Dessau, The Evening Standard, 21 June 2018
BRET MCKENZIE and Jemaine Clement were supposed to play their first London tour dates in seven years in March but then Bret rather inconsiderately tumbled and ...
Michael Bublé: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 1 October 2018
OF ALL THE job descriptions in music, the one for the family-friendly crooner is surely the most attractive: "Singer wanted for arena tours and Christmas ...
Lisa Hannigan and Stargaze: Barbican, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 5 October 2018
LISA HANNIGAN is still best-known for her work alongside Damien Rice: her voice was the ethereal counterpoint to his earthy tones on multi-platinum-selling O in 2002. ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 26 October 2018
Forty-somethings out in force for teen voice of the next generation ...
Black Eyed Peas: Eventim Apollo, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 29 October 2018
Black Eyed Peas without Fergie — the pod has a huge gap to fill ...
George Ezra: SSE Arena, Wembley
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 16 November 2018
Upbeat Ezra wraps arena in a cuddly cardigan with his big-hearted balladry. ...
Florence and the Machine: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 22 November 2018
Quiet moments resonate loudest as Florence fills arena with love. ...
Mumford & Sons: O2 Arena, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 30 November 2018
IT SAYS MUCH about the rise of Mumford & Sons that four dates on their current tour have had to be postponed due to the ...
Mabel: O2 Academy Brixton, SW9
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 13 December 2018
MABEL MCVEY's mother is Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry (she of '7 Seconds' fame); her father is Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey. But she's a star ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
Singer shares her thoughts exactly in brave confessional ...
Lily Allen: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 December 2018
EYEBROWS WERE raised earlier this year when Lily Allen's latest album, No Shame, was nominated for the Mercury Prize but it fully deserved its place ...
Chvrches: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 8 February 2019
ALLY PALLY is an unforgiving venue that will swallow up all but the hardiest of bands, so credit to Chvrches (pronounced churches) for proving they ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 12 March 2019
Rap's royal highness is as exciting as she is infuriating. ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 1 April 2019
When the apocalypse comes, all that will remain is cockroaches and Busted. ...
Metallica: Twickenham Stadium, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 21 June 2019
Metallica formula is unaltered but still delivers heavy thrills ...
The Eagles: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 24 June 2019
Harmony beats fireworks as The Eagles do easy breezy stadium rock ...
Burt Bacharach, Joss Stone: Burt Bacharach and Joss Stone: Eventim Apollo, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 July 2019
"THE QUESTION I always get asked is, 'Why are you still doing this?'" The answer for Burt Bacharach, 91, is love, sweet love. "It makes ...
Khalid, Ed Sheeran: Khalid: The O2, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 18 September 2019
Khalid gets an Ed start as Ginger One joins in ...
Coldplay: Natural History Museum, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 26 November 2019
Arena mainstays downsize for whale of a night at the Natural History Museum ...
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 10 March 2020
Jack's back — with a sound to win over hearts not stadiums ...
Wolf Alice on that Marilyn Manson "upskirting incident"
Interview by Laura Barton, The Evening Standard, 27 May 2021
Wolf Alice were making a third album when Covid hit — now it's arrived and its creators are itching to get back to business. They ...
Martha Wainwright: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Evening Standard, 21 September 2021
The singer songwriter was on perky form in a set that hinged on songs that explored her recent divorce ...
Ellie Goulding: Eventim Apollo, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Evening Standard, 18 October 2021
The singer emerged after a long period away from performing with a crowd-pleasing show designed to thrill her fans. ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Evening Standard, 19 June 2023
A MARATHON 30-song musical feast became a swashbuckling maritime adventure as SZA brought her SOS world tour to London for this, the second in an extended four-night ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, The Evening Standard, 28 August 2023
It still has its gender imbalance issues but the women on the bill this year were the ones not to miss. ...
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